SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- County planners are expected to approve naming a Syracuse street after civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., because no residents objected to the change at a hearing tonight.
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The Syracuse Onondaga County Planning Agency is scheduled to vote Dec. 27 on changing East Castle Street to Dr. Martin Luther King East and West Castle Street to Dr. Martin Luther King West. Earlier this month the Syracuse Common Council voted unanimously to support the change.

At a public hearing tonight at the Dunbar Center, several people spoke in favor of the change and none opposed it. Common Councilor Khalid Bey, who sponsored the initiative, said most Castle Street residents signed a petition asking for the name change.